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  Two Nigerian fraudsters, Tobilola Ibrahim Bakare and Alimi Seun Sikiru have lost their mansions, N200m cash and more to the Federal Government. The properties lost are in upscale Lekki axis of Lagos. This is after their arrest and successful ...

More troubles are brewing for suspended aide to Ogun Governor, Abidemi Rufai, who was indicted for alleged conspiracy, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Rufai was arrested at the JFK airport in New York on May 14 over alleged $350,000 ...

Schools, Shops, banks in Abakaliki shutdown as residents obey IPOB-sit-at-home order. The group had called for the exercise to protest the arrest and detention of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu by the Federal Government, but Kanu’s brother over the weekend called ...

Dino Melaye has silenced rumour mongers saying he never asked anyone not to post his picture with Hushpuppi, assuring Nigerians that he is a political celebrity. Dino reacted to this on his Instagram page with a laughing photo and wrote; ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has disclosed that it has so far recovered N89.2 billion excess and illegal charges slammed on customers by banks in Nigeria. Meanwhile the apex bank also said that Nigeria’s financial system is sound, resilient ...

Two North Carolina men were killed by a light-rail train in the middle of a memorial for their brother — who was killed in the same spot two weeks ago, reports said. A LYNX Blue Line train in Charlotte plowed ...

Former Nigerian head of state, Ibrahim Babangida, has given reasons why he annulled the June 12, 1993 election, widely believed to have been won by Moshood Kashimawo Olawale, M.K.A, Abiola of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Babaginda, who was the ...

Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), might have canceled out a former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and a former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, from the 2023 presidential run, because they would be in their ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, Uyo Zonal Command, has secured the conviction of two bank officials, Daniel Akpan Eno and Mbuk Idongesit for conspiracy and theft of funds in the account of a deceased customer of a commercial ...

South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma, jailed for contempt of court last month, was admitted to hospital on Friday, less than a week before he is due in court for a separate graft trial. The Department of Correctional Services “can ...

The Veterinary Council of Nigeria has issued a 60-day ultimatum to all unregistered and illegal veterinary premises in Nigeria to register with the various state committees or face the full wrath of the law. Inaugurating an 11-man Lagos State Veterinary ...

Six officers of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces have been sentenced to death by a court over the killing of six protesting students in 2019. Over 120 people were killed during the forceful dispersal of the protests, though the numbers have ...

A Chief Nursing Sister, Roseline Oladimeji, has advised pregnant women to allow their husbands to suck their breasts to prepare them for breastfeeding after delivery.   Oladimeji gave the advice at a sensitisation programme marking the 2021 World Breastfeeding Week ...

Angry residents of Iree in Osun State, on Thursday, laid siege to the Divisional Police Station in the town in protest after armed robbers attacked two banks in the community and killed a man. The deceased was said to have ...

Kidnappers of 80-year-old Madam Betinah Benson, mother of the Secretary to the Bayelsa State Government, Dr Kombowei Benson, have demanded a ransom of N500m for her release, The Nation reports. Another group also demanded N200m for the release of Tari ...

  The Idokpa community close to the Benin bypass, Edo State, was thrown into panic as the lifeless body of a middle-aged woman was found dangling in an uncompleted building on Thursday. Punch Metro gathered that the woman, who was ...

A 36-old lady, Lorretta Anoh has allgedly killed her lover, an international businessman, Chikoka Emeka Henry and carted away his 4Matic Mercedes Benz car and a sum of N2.9 million naira in Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom State. The ...

A shocking video has shown the moment a woman with a gun walked up to another woman and shot her dead on a crowded Prospect Heights street Tuesday – before casually strolling away. The video shows a shooter wearing a ...

Justice Abiola Soladoye of an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Thursday ordered Don-Chima George, and Segun Razak, son of Chief Lanre Razak, accused of drugging and gang-raping a woman in a hotel in Lekki, Lagos to open ...

Armed men suspected to be bandits terrorizing some parts of Zamfara State have abducted the father of the Speaker of Zamfara State House of Assembly, Alhaji Nasiru Muazu Magarya.   Daily Post gathered that the assailants also kidnapped the Speaker’s ...

35 persons have tested positive for the dreaded COVID-19 at the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, camp in Sagamu, Ogun State. This was disclosed today by the State Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker. The Commissioner, while addressing newsmen in ...

The Emir of Kazaure in Jigawa, Alhaji Najib Hussaini-Adamu, has donated five motorcycles and 25 torchlights to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence (NCSDC), Area C, Kazaure Command. CSC Adamu Shehu, the Spokesman of the Corps, stated this in a ...

General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye has lamented that many born again Christians are now living like children of the devil. Adeboye spoke at the RCCG’s 69th Annual Convention Tagged ‘A New Wave of Glory’ ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Thursday, threatened Fulani herders killing farmers in Enugu State. IPOB vowed to teach them a lesson in the language they would understand. About eight persons were recently killed in Mgbuji community in Eha-Amufu, ...

Security operatives attached to the Borno State Geographic Information System in charge of assessment of land documents in Maiduguri, have allegedly gunned down two residents of Maduganari. The incident happened when the agency led by Engr. Adam Bababe went to ...